Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Dubbed: Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
Run Time: 146 minutes
Style trumps substance in Man on Fire, a slick, brooding reunion of Crimson Tide
star Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott. The ominous,
crime-ridden setting is Mexico City, where a dour, alcoholic warrior
with a mysterious Black Ops past (Washington) seeks redemption as the
devoted bodyguard of a lovable 9-year-old girl (the precociously gifted
Dakota Fanning), then responds with predictable fury when she is
kidnapped. Prolific screenwriter Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, L.A. Confidential)
sets a solid emotional foundation for Washington's tormented
character, and Scott's stylistic excess compensates for a distended
plot that's both repellently violent and viscerally absorbing. Among
Scott's more distracting techniques is the use of free-roaming,
comic-bookish subtitles... even when they're unnecessary! Adapted from a novel by A.J. Quinnell and previously filmed as a 1987 vehicle for Scott Glenn, Man on Fire is roughly on par with Scott's similar 1990 film Revenge, efficiently satisfying Washington's incendiary bloodlust under a heavy blanket of humid, doom-laden atmosphere. --Jeff Shannon
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